Legal Opinion
Randy Quarles v. Department of the Navy
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 26, 1990No. 88-5328PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS.
STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
This appeal involves the application of subsection (b)(5) of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1988), known as the “deliberative process” exemption, to certain cost estimates prepared by Navy officials in the course of the Navy’s selecting homeports for ships in a new battleship group. We affirm the district court’s finding that subsection (b)(5) protects the estimates from mandatory disclosure.
In the mid-1980s the Navy initiated a search for “homeports” for the 130 ships that it…
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